BMAD-METHOD/expansion-packs/bmad-rfq-government/tasks/win-theme-development.md

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# Win Theme Development Task
## Purpose
- Create compelling win themes that differentiate your proposal
- Align strategic messaging with customer priorities and evaluation criteria
- Develop evidence-based discriminators that highlight your strengths
- Ensure consistent messaging throughout the proposal
- Increase evaluation scores by addressing key customer hot buttons
## Usage Scenarios
### Scenario 1: Initial Win Theme Development
1. **Customer Analysis**: Analyze agency priorities and pain points
2. **Capability Assessment**: Identify organizational strengths and differentiators
3. **Theme Creation**: Develop structured win themes with claims, proof, and benefits
4. **Theme Prioritization**: Select and refine the most impactful themes
### Scenario 2: Win Theme Integration
1. **Section Mapping**: Determine where each win theme should appear
2. **Content Integration**: Incorporate themes into proposal narratives
3. **Consistency Check**: Ensure themes are applied uniformly
4. **Impact Assessment**: Evaluate theme effectiveness in draft content
## Task Instructions
### 1. Customer and Evaluation Analysis
**Analysis Components**:
1. **Agency Mission Analysis**:
- Research agency strategic priorities
- Identify program-specific goals and challenges
- Understand end-user needs and pain points
- Review agency technology and modernization initiatives
2. **Section M Evaluation Criteria Analysis**:
- Extract and prioritize evaluation factors
- Identify scoring methodology and weights
- Determine critical success factors
- Map evaluation criteria to proposal sections
3. **Competitive Assessment**:
- Identify likely competitors
- Analyze competitor strengths and weaknesses
- Determine incumbent performance issues (if applicable)
- Identify opportunities for differentiation
4. **Hot Button Identification**:
- Determine customer's critical concerns
- Identify risk areas from the customer perspective
- Recognize unstated but important priorities
- Map hot buttons to evaluation criteria
### 2. Win Theme Structure Development
**Theme Components**:
1. **Claim Development**:
- Create clear, concise statements of value
- Focus on customer benefits, not features
- Address specific evaluation criteria
- Differentiate from competitor offerings
2. **Proof Point Assembly**:
- Gather evidence supporting each claim
- Include metrics and quantifiable results
- Reference relevant past performance
- Incorporate certifications and qualifications
3. **Benefit Articulation**:
- Connect capabilities to customer mission outcomes
- Explain why the benefit matters to this customer
- Quantify impact when possible
- Address specific agency priorities
4. **Risk Reduction Elements**:
- Identify how your approach reduces risk
- Highlight proven methodologies and experience
- Demonstrate understanding of potential challenges
- Explain mitigation strategies
### 3. Theme Refinement and Selection
**Refinement Process**:
1. **Theme Evaluation**:
- Score themes against evaluation criteria alignment
- Assess strength of supporting evidence
- Evaluate differentiation from competitors
- Consider impact on customer hot buttons
2. **Theme Selection**:
- Choose 3-5 primary themes for emphasis
- Ensure coverage across all evaluation factors
- Balance technical, management, and past performance themes
- Select themes with strongest evidence
3. **Theme Enhancement**:
- Strengthen language for clarity and impact
- Add specific metrics and results
- Refine customer benefit statements
- Ensure themes are memorable and distinctive
4. **Theme Testing**:
- Review with subject matter experts
- Validate claims with evidence
- Test against competitor likely approaches
- Ensure alignment with proposal strategy
### 4. Integration Planning
**Integration Strategy**:
1. **Theme Mapping**:
- Identify primary and secondary placement locations
- Map themes to specific proposal sections
- Determine frequency and emphasis
- Create theme integration matrix
2. **Presentation Formats**:
- Develop theme statements for executive summary
- Create theme boxes or callouts for key sections
- Design graphics that reinforce themes
- Prepare evidence tables supporting theme claims
3. **Consistency Guidelines**:
- Establish standard theme language
- Create theme integration checklist
- Develop theme-specific keywords and phrases
- Prepare guidance for section authors
## Best Practices
- **Customer Focus**: Always frame themes from the customer's perspective
- **Evidence-Based**: Include specific, quantifiable proof for every claim
- **Differentiated**: Ensure themes highlight what sets you apart from competitors
- **Evaluation-Aligned**: Map directly to Section M evaluation criteria
- **Consistent Application**: Use themes consistently throughout the proposal
- **Visual Reinforcement**: Support themes with graphics and callouts
- **Memorable Language**: Create clear, concise theme statements that evaluators will remember
- **Benefit-Oriented**: Focus on outcomes and benefits, not features or capabilities
## Integration Points
- **RFQ Document Import**: Builds on understanding of RFQ requirements and evaluation criteria
- **Compliance Matrix Generation**: Ensures themes address key requirements
- **Proposal Content Generation**: Guides content development with strategic messaging
- **Review Simulation**: Provides criteria for evaluating theme effectiveness
- **Executive Summary Development**: Forms the core messaging for the executive summary
## Related Agents
- **Win Theme Generator**: Primary agent for this task